Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AFLY

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)
Date:

1864.06-07
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex
Equipment:

Sibley tent; wall tent
Locations & Lines:

City Point VA; City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); USMRR Hospital (City Point VA); Virginia
Military Units:

Army of the Potomac; US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army; USMRR Construction Corps
Transports:

USMRR locomotive Gen. Dix; USMRR locomotive Gen. McClellan
Sources:

Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

The MOLLUS Collection says: Camp of Construction Corps, U.S.M.R.R. City Point, Va.

Etched onto negative (not by Fowx): 91T Hospital City Point [crossed out]. 405.

One of 28 surviving Fowx negatives created using a rotating lens mount to shoot four consecutive exposures onto one plate. For this plate and one other, Fowx turned the camera between exposing the upper and lower stereo pairs, so that a panorama can be formed from the two views (see Related Images).

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